Getting an awful lot of this lately. Not just for Forumosa.com either. Anyone else? Any suggestions? I’ve not changed any settings lately, and this certainly isn’t the first time this has happened off and on.
[quote][color=brown]The connection has timed out
The server at forumosa.com is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.[/color][/quote]
[quote=“Mer”]Getting an awful lot of this lately. Not just for Forumosa.com either. Anyone else? Any suggestions? I’ve not changed any settings lately, and this certainly isn’t the first time this has happened off and on.
[quote][color=brown]The connection has timed out
The server at forumosa.com is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.[/color][/quote][/quote]Me too, and in fact the problems are mostly occurring with other sites, not Forumosa. Strangely, the problems are partially resolved by using a proxy server. I posted about it here:
[quote=“Mer”]What are the details/address for the TOR proxy?[/quote]Sorry, I don’t really know. The thing I have is a Firefox addon called Torbutton. To use it, you need another program called Privoxy.
I think it goes through servers in Northern Europe most of the time. But it’s pretty slow. As I said in the other thread, I’d be quite happy with any other proxy server provided that it sorted out the connection problems.
Do you have cable internet? I do and I think the company might be running too many connections down the one line or something.
I’m using HINET ADSL. 8M. It’s usually pretty good for me, but this ‘timed out’ problem has come up a bit more than usual lately. A friend of mine with the same service said the same thing of service quality today.
I have used another proxy before, I think it’s in Turkey of all places.
With Firefox, in the HTTP proxy, enter in 195.175.37.70 with the port as 80.
It’s slower than the direct connection to the internet setting, but at least it’s stopped the timing out problem for now. Pain in the ass.
[quote=“Mer”]I have used another proxy before, I think it’s in Turkey of all places.
With Firefox, in the HTTP proxy, enter in 195.175.37.70 with the port as 80.
It’s slower than the direct connection to the internet setting, but at least it’s stopped the timing out problem for now. Pain in the ass.[/quote]Thanks for the tip. That proxy is fast enough for me, though it’s causing some problems with cookies – I’m having to log in to Forumosa multiple times.
i got vdsl 2months ago, and i have same problems with foreign pages, even a download from my friends dsl-server in germany only got 2-3k/s (he can deliver ~70k/s) i already was talking to some engineers from hinet (not just those -dont-know-anything-ladies- in a stupid call center who always suggest u to reset ur adsl-modem) - they were looking very serious at this problem, and send my case to taipei - if there are more people - maybe i can make some more pressure
right now… i am switching all the time between use and not to use the proxy - depending on the speed
it mostly changes between morning/afternoon/evening
i am using firefox with 50-60 pages opened at the same time, when using a proxy and open FF it take almost 5minutes for all pages to load… but without proxy it will be much slower
PS: when calling someone from CHT to check ur line, better to remove all firewalls and routers, and connect the computer directely to the adsl-modem - those “simple” CHT engineers outside are very easy on blaming routers and firewalls as the speed-problem… i already got headache about that… so i am always prepared if there is someone from CHT coming to do something
Thanks for your input kcs. I have switched from the Turkish proxy to the HINET one and it’s a bit quicker. I don’t like the idea of using a proxy, but for now, with these time-out problems, I’ll try it out.
I would like to have a lengthy sit-down chat with a CHT engineer and discuss some of the weird problems that happen from time to time with their service and see what they say. I don’t think it’s a big issue, but it is strange sometimes.
Agreed guys getting slower than usual international links on FTTB with Hinet here in Kaohsiung. Ive been using proxy.hinet.net also as a “fix” to this solution but I also do not like using a proxy. Its obviously a problem with Hinet, mabye too many people leeching porn slowing down the network So for now proxy is a fix but hopefully they get it sorted, yes im a net junkie and I like my daily hit nice and quick
Tor isn’t based anywhere. It’s a P2P kinda deal - your connection gets routed through other people using tor, wherever in the world they may be. For anonymity it’s pretty good. For bandwidth it’s horrible.
I use hinet too, and it’s awful. Worse every day. I’m told that it’s mostly a router problem, and that you can get much better speeds (and fewer problems) by buying access to a commercial proxy in, say, Korea. Your traffic will then get routed through Japan to the US, rather than through Hinet’s one crappy misconfigured router in Taidong or wherever. I haven’t tried this for myself yet, but I might well do soon - 800ms pings just aren’t cutting it for WoW
Edit: I’ve been getting the “connection timed out” crap lately too. I strongly suspect that it’s to do with the transparent web cache Hinet run for US-hosted websites. I know this cache exists because they told me so, when I called to complain that updates to our housing site weren’t showing up.
Roughly, every time someone views a website, Hinet saves a copy of it on a server somewhere … and the next time you (or anyone else) requests that website, they give you their copy of it instead of asking for the original again. This saves them some precious trans-Pacific bandwidth, but means you often end up seeing the wrong thing. Lately, I think someone has been messing with its configuration, and has basically broken it.
Why is ‘data being transferred’ (shown on the lower left status bar on Firefox) from youtube.com when I am browsing around different pages on forumosa.com and those pages are loading? Is it advertising based? Has anyone else noticed that?
Not sure sorry Mer, I do know however this hinet speed problem is really getting up my arse now. Even using hinet proxy I cant access a few sites which Id like to.
Holy cow is this bad. I’m using the Hinet line at my shop and it seems like half the pages won’t load the first time this afternoon. My TFN connection at home is humming along fine though.
I was having the same trouble with slow connections and time outs. Check out this thread I just made for a possible solution. I no longer have an issue after talking with Hinet last night.
Given the whole earthquake / snapped ocean cables thing, it might be worth waiting a couple weeks to see what happens, before doing anything drastic like spending money.
My HiNet has actually been much better lately - I even got a green ping bar in WoW the other day, for the first time ever.
[quote=“Brendon”]Given the whole earthquake / snapped ocean cables thing, it might be worth waiting a couple weeks to see what happens, before doing anything drastic like spending money.[/quote]Thanks Brendon, but this problem for me doesn’t seem to be related to the earthquake. It started before the earthquake, and didn’t change after it.
I’m on cable internet, but I think the cable company me be going through Hinet. So it could be due to this misconfigured router thing, or it could just be that the cable company have overextended themselves. Anyway, it’s much better when I use a proxy but the free Turkish proxy causes problems with Yahoo and Forumosa, so that’s why I was thinking of paying for a proxy service.
[quote=“Mer”]Why is ‘data being transferred’ (shown on the lower left status bar on Firefox) from youtube.com when I am browsing around different pages on forumosa.com and those pages are loading? Is it advertising based? Has anyone else noticed that?[/quote]I think that’s the Taiwan Beer ad.
So for now proxy is a fix but hopefully they get it sorted, yes im a net junkie and I like my daily hit nice and quick 